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Hillary Clinton's Amazing Speech On LGBT Rights

Being Gay in Utopia

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Lavender Womyn's 8th Anniversary Event

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This video is of last year's (2010) celebration event.  This year, on Sunday, August 21, 2011 @ 2:00pm, we will be celebrating Lavender Womyn's 8th anniversary at Kim and Kathy's home.

We will provide hamburgers, hot dogs and bottled water.

We'd like you to bring a side dish to share and your own beverage if you'd like something other than water.  Also, bring your own chair or blanket, if you'd like one to sit on.

This is a family event, so bring the kids.  We'll have volleyball, badminton, basketball and billards available.  We also have a huge sandbox, teeter totter and video games for the kids.

If you have a squirt gun, you might want to bring it as well.  If it's a nice day, we'll have some water games to play.  We're also going to play a really fun game that is sure to get you laughing until your stomach hurts.  :)

For those who want to stay into the evening, we'll get the fire pit going and roast some smores, and sit around the campfire.

It's going to be a great time, so be ready to come celebrate with us at our home.  If you've never attended a Lavender Womyn's event before, no worries.  There are going to be LOTS of new women here who are attending for the first time, so you won't be alone.  I know you'll find Lavender Womyn to be very warm and welcoming, so come join us and have a wonderful day of celebration.

For directions and to RSVP email  support@lavenderwomyn.com and let us know approx. how many hamburgers and/or hot dogs you'll be eating so we'll know how much to buy.

Dustin Lance Black: Testimony Video Contest

We here at Courage have been so moved by the stories shared so far in the Dustin Lance Black video challenge that we decided to extend the deadline to July 4, 2011. With stories being submitted from 46 states and counting, will you add your voice and help us reach 50 states today? -Rick From Pedro Zamora to Harvey Milk and soon J. Edgar Hoover, so much of my work tells the stories of LGBTQ people because I believe sharing our stories is the most effective way to dispel the myths, lies and stereotypes that have been used to deny us our rights for generations. By sharing our stories, I believe we can win full equality nationwide.   That's why today, I’m helping launch a new film project with Courage Campaign, called Testimony: Take a Stand. And this time, I’m turning the cameras on you in a national search to find the next great American LGBTQ stories.

 

I’m asking for your stories now because I know DOMA repeal is possible in the U.S. Senate, and it is clear the Federal case for equal marriage is soon destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. But these Justices and U.S. Senators don’t live in a vacuum. They watch the news, read their papers and pay attention to the daily narrative unfolding across this country. Our stories must be a part of that narrative. That’s why Courage Campaign needs you -- on camera.

 

Over the next months, we will post and share all of your videos. And at the end of this search, my film crew will choose three, fly to your home town to film your story and share it with the country in a television ad campaign.  

 

I grew up in a conservative Mormon, military household in Texas, came out of the closet, and told my story. I know first hand how difficult it can be, but I can attest to the change it’s created in my family and the changes it’s helped start even within the Mormon Church. 

 

Our stories are powerful. Our stories change minds. Whether you are LGBTQ or a straight ally… please tell yours.

 

www.couragecampaign.org/DustinLanceBlack

 

Thank you for your testimony,

 

Dustin Lance Black

Dear Woman - Conscious Men

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Free Hugs

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Lavender Womyn Holiday Party - 2010

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Playing for Change - John Lennon - Imagine

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In the beginning of 2010 the Playing For Change crew began work on a new Song Around the World, John Lennon's "Imagine." It has been an amazing year of production, taking the crew from the favelas of Brazil to the shrines of southern India, from villages in Nepal to the glittering urban landscape of Tokyo and New York, and beyond.

This song is the Playing For Change Foundation's gift to the world. The Playing For Change Foundation feels honored to have the blessing and generous support of Yoko Ono as music lovers around the world join together to launch the Power to the People campaign. The campaign seeks to advance John Lennon’s vision of peace by engaging artists and audiences to contribute to music education programs worldwide. Proceeds raised will help build music schools, support teachers and music programs, purchase instruments, and connect schools for cross-cultural learning and conflict resolution across borders. Music IS the power: Power to the People.

To stay informed about the PFC Foundation, the schools we are building, the lives we are touching, and how you can participate, please join our mailing list at playingforchange.org, and participate in this global movement.

It Gets Better: Suze Orman

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